Every accepted public quote

“The average juror is not Mr. Spock. If he were, then a trial-court judge's job would be much easier. He could instruct the jury in broad strokes - instructing only as to the bare elements of...”

“When you listen to a song, it should make you sit up and wonder, 'Hey, what is this!' or give you an inexplicable feeling of joy or relate beautifully to the music in you.”

“We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.”

“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.”

“Modesty is the color of virtue.”

“Louisiana was as close to South Asia as the United States could get: it had spicy food, humidity, giant cockroaches, and a corrupt government.”

“I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”

“If we don't want intrusive government, then we need to care for the least among us so that they are not exploited as a reason by the government for bigger government.”

“I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let...”

“Minneapolis just embraced me. There are a lot of weirdos here. It's awesome, because I'm a weirdo. Thankfully, the city embraced me with open arms. A lot about Minneapolis helped carve my mu...”

“There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak al...”

“Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.”

“As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.”

“The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official document...”

“The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.”

“There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.”

“Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS during his attack, the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11.”

“Sigur Ros make beautiful music. Bloc Party are fantastic and exciting and innovative.”

“I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So...”

“Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.”

“When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.”

“My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I didn't do that much in Chicago after that. I actually sat around and didn't do anything f...”

“It's your free will; do as you will.”

“But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the o...”

“Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”

“Play as much as you can. That's what I had to do because of my inexperience. And don't get frustrated.”

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.”

“I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was.”

“For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That's part of being a public figure.”

“Powerful drawing hands, like a pair with a flush draw or even conventional straight and flush draws, are often good opportunities to try a semi-bluff - making a bet or raise that you hope wi...”

“For Americans, with the advent of the U.S. invention of the Internet, free speech is not just open dissemination of ideas and information. It includes limitless instant access to those ideas...”

“Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.”

“The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, neverth...”

“Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manip...”

“For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.”

“Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.”

“Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.”

“I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up”

“I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work...”

“In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.”

“I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and p...”

“Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not b...”

“The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.”

“I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.'”

“At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.”

“The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of...”

“she was only fascinated under neptune increasingly outside my reach at night.”

“I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.”